11.7% ▲ +10.6%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Coffin Bay · Urban Centre
Ancestry & Birthplace in Coffin Bay
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
An increasing number of overseas-born residents has seen the foreign-born population in Coffin Bay rise to 11.7% since 2011. This is a small community where the vast majority of people were born in Australia or share British and Irish roots.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
Nearly half of the residents claim English ancestry (46.5%), followed closely by those identifying as Australian (43.2%). Scottish, Irish and German roots are also common in the area.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
The proportion of people born overseas is far below the South Australian figure of 24.1% and the national figure of 27.7%. Most people here were born in Australia (79.6%), with England being the most common overseas birthplace at 4.6%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Coffin Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421007/coffin-bay/topic/ancestry-heritage